Michael Singer: Jai guru dev, jai masters. As we come into a new year is a good time to take stock inventory. How you doing? What you carrying with you into this next lap around the store? People have so much trouble with life. They struggle. They have trouble making decisions. They have trouble with guilt. They have trouble with fear.
They have trouble with desire. Anything about that kind of drives everything. There’s a solution to all of this. It’s not difficult to understand, to do. That’s a different story. It’s not what you’re doing ever. It is never what you’re doing. It’s why you’re doing it. That’s as deep as it comes. That’s all you need to know.
So when you try to make decisions, it’s not about what you’re gonna end up doing, what decision to make, it’s on what basis are you making that decision? Everything. Your thoughts, your emotions. Why not what? Why are they the way they are? Not, what do I do about it? Spirituality. Buddhists say work at the root.
That’s the root. There’s going to be action. It’s going to be reaction. There’s going to be interaction. The question is not, what are those things? Why are you doing them? What is underneath that is driving your behavior. That’s what spirituality is about. It really is. It’s not about meditation. It is. I mean, yes, meditation is a wonderful technique for achieving what we just talked about for going deep enough to see why you’re doing what you’re doing.
Once you see why you’re doing what you’re doing, you, bye-bye. Understand that I don’t teach meditation. I meditate. Always have, and you all should meditate. It’s wonderful. Right. Why don’t I teach it? ’cause what I have found throughout my entire spiritual growth, this very long time is why am I doing what I’m doing?
Why am I meditating? Why am I not meditating? Why am I eating what I’m eating? Why am I interacting with the person I’m interacting with? Why do I like this person? Why don’t I like that person? Not what, why? Why takes you deeper? And when you go deep enough and you start seeing the why is disgusting, do you understand that?
You better start handling that. Okay. The why is just, are you kidding me? I’m the most selfish thing I ever walked to face of the earth. All I care about is me. What do I want? What am I for my children, for my spouse, for my finances, for my job? It’s, I mean, mine all the time, isn’t it? Okay. That’s when you start to wake up and realize there’s this journey, the journey to die, to be reborn.
That’s what Christ meant. The journey whereby that’s gone. Can it be gone? Yes, it can be gone. If it can be there, it can be gone. Okay. That’s another story how to do, we can talk about that, but that’s what spirituality is about, is why are you doing what you’re doing? And if you look at it, you’re gonna see, I’m not happy.
I wanna be happy. I’m happy. I wanna stay happy. I like my job, I wanna keep it, I don’t like my job. I wanna change. Somehow the letter I shows up everywhere. I’m a Beatles fan. Come on. I grew up in the sixties, right? I didn’t know till recently that they had a song called I Me Mind. Did you know that The Beatles wrote a song called I Me Mind?
I Me Mind All the Time. I mean Mind I Me Mind Kinda Neat. Must have been when they’re hanging out with Maharishi. But in any event, that’s what you’re going to see down there. Do not be afraid to see it. You can’t be afraid to see what’s down there. And what you’re gonna see is you evolved to that or devolved to that.
Animals run away. We love the deer. They’re so beautiful, they run away. Okay, we’re not gonna hurt ’em. We love them, but they run away. The possums run away. All the little critters around here, the armadillos, the possums, the foxes. There are raccoons, right? We have skunks. We have a lot of little critters out here.
If you go to get them or talk to them, they run the way. Well, you’re the same. It’s a very evolved version of that. You’re running away involves defending yourself, involves lying, involves manipulating, involves deciding what you want and trying to get it. It’s all come from the same place. It’s coming from fear.
It all comes from, I’m not okay. How do I be okay? I don’t do seminars. You wouldn’t wanna come. All right. If I ever did, I’d make you say that like a mantra. Admit it, I’m not okay. By the way, that’s why I am doing everything I’m doing. Listen to me. I know you like to be positive minded, but Buddha isn’t too positive minded.
What was the first noble truth? All the life is suffering. My God, there’s a negative guy all. Alright, well I’m teaching the same thing. What you will see if you look down there, listen to me, then you’re not okay. Not okay. If you’re positive. You’re trying to be okay. That’s positive. You haven’t given up, you’re not depressed.
So depression comes. Where does depression start? I’m not okay. Nobody who is okay is depressed. I’m not. Okay. And I’ve given up seeing a way to be okay. That’s what serious depression is, isn’t it? I don’t see any way that I could be. Okay. I loved her, him, whatever, and they’ve left. I’ll never be okay again for the rest of my life.
Why should I even bother you get depressed. Why? Because you’re not okay, and you gave up hope to be okay. All right. When you’re not okay and you’re doing things to try to be okay, we call you a positive human being. No, there is such a thing as being okay. Ready for the next word? Unconditionally.
Unconditionally, okay. No matter what happens, no matter what has ever happened, and no matter what will happen, your state of okayness will never change. It is a permanent state of wellbeing. Now, believe it or not, that doesn’t mean you stay in bed and don’t get out and don’t go to work. Let’s get that over with to start with, right?
Well, if I’m okay, well, am I doing anything that’s hilarious that you caught in your mental set of I’m not okay, that’s why I’m doing things, and you think if you’re okay, you won’t be doing things. Why would I get married? Why I have children. Why would I go to work? Why would I take care of my finances?
Why would I do anything? I’m okay. I’m fine. I’m an ecstasy now. Wonderful. Alright. What you’re missing is when you’re, okay. Believe it or not, that becomes the motive for action, not a motive for inaction. Why You want to express yourself now you wanna get for yourself. I wanna fix what’s wrong now you want to get what will compensate for what’s wrong.
You hear the difference? You are filled with love, you’re filled with joy, you’re filled with wellbeing all the time. It will never go away and you know it will never go away. That’s what I want. You, you hear me coming to a New Year’s, have a serious talk. There is such a state, don’t you dare think there’s not, and we’ll talk about it in a second.
Alright? In that state. You want to express the beauty that you feel like an artist wants to create a painting, wants to create a sculpture, wants to sing a song. You don’t, not act, but your motive for action is that you are so filled with inspiration and love and expressiveness, that that’s where the action comes from.
You’ll reach a state where you go to work and you don’t know why you’re getting paid. Two weeks. What’s this for? I came and worked and I was in ity doing what I was doing. I just loved everything I was doing. I was programming. I was doing nursing care, I was doing whatever I was doing. I couldn’t wait to get there.
And you’re paying me. That’s really funny. See motive for your action. People go to work now. It’s hilarious. There’s five days during the week. Normally Monday, Tuesday went, and Thursday, Friday, right. They go to work to be able to do things on the weekend. How long is my vacation? Only two weeks. I’m gonna protest.
I want three weeks. A great being. Doesn’t even know what the revocation means. It doesn’t even enter their thought. ’cause they’re okay. What you mean by vocation is getting away from what I don’t wanna do. That’s why you need time off. From what? Time off from I can’t get myself together. Time off. So I, I can’t breathe.
I’m so stressed out. I can’t, I need some time off. Are you kidding me? There’s no such thing as a vacation. There’s no such thing as time off. Right? You don’t need it. You’re filled with love all the time. You’re just doing what you’re doing. You can’t even wait to do what you’re doing when you’re doing it right.
- You’re very quiet, okay? You wanna talk about a place in the sun and before my life is done? That’s what you’re talking about right now. It’s not like that is it? Right now you’re not okay and you need things to happen outside that make you feel better. And if you have that going, they say, oh man, she found it.
She found her soulmate. Okay, what if he does? What if he leaves you? Why’d she get so quiet? Can they die? Answer me. Can they leave you? Yes. Well, well now what? How you doing? That’s ’cause your wellbeing was conditional. There is such a thing as unconditional wellbeing. It doesn’t mean you don’t get married, it doesn’t mean you don’t have children.
Does the natural expression or not of your expression? It’s not anything you’re doing out of need. There is no need, there’s no psychological needs, and that’s all y’all are working on. Your psychological needs. Most of you can eat once in a while, and I’m not making fun of that. ’cause some people can’t understand that If I make the distinction between, you know, food, clothing, shelter, not mansions and lobster food, clothing, shelter, there are, we know there are people in this world who don’t have those things.
Okay? And of course you feel compassion for that. And by the way, if you are not okay, you will find a reason to not take care of them. Why are not working? They must be lazy. Whatever it is, any way you want, they’re not educated. You just find yourself an ego thing that says, why I can’t take care of everybody or try to, or care about it.
Why? ’cause I’m caring about me. I’m taking care of me. When you’re taking care of you, and that’s what you’re about, you find reasons not to take care of other people. You don’t have to find reasons. I don’t even think about it. Okay, I wanna get into that, but I don’t have an honest talk. What’s going on?
It’s all about how you’re doing inside, deep inside your heart, your mind, your depth of your being. And if you look in there, you’re gonna see it’s not so good. So you need to do things outside that make it be better. Okay? And there’s nothing wrong with any of this. You need to start from where you are, but at least a start.
Be honest, I am about me. What am I gonna wear today? Well, you care what you’re wearing because I want people to like me. Why do I want people to like you? ’cause it makes me feel good. Why don’t you feel good? Every single thing comes down to the root, which is I’m not okay. Uh, come on, admit it. I’m not okay.
I’m trying to be okay, and I think if she loves me, I’ll be okay. The net result is you’ve just got all these conditions. Let’s say I’ll be okay if this happens. Has it ever made you permanently, okay? Have you ever gotten what you wanted? Have you ever gotten what you wanted? And you never want anything else, right?
It doesn’t last for two seconds. It’s says, Buddhist, me, my transient. Yes, you can do things that match what you want and they make you feel better. The question is why do you want them? And better than that, why does not everything make you feel high? Why does not the sun come up in the morning, blow your mind going down in the evening?
Same thing. Why is not every single you are, I can’t help myself, right? I’m addicted. Right? There’s this tiny little planet. There’s a rumor going around. There’s this tiny little planet spinning around the middle of black, dark, empty space. There’s other planets, not so much the exoplanets. We’ll talk about those, but there’s other planets within our solar system.
How would you like to go there and hang out? There’s nothing happening. Will you please go to Mars, at least in your mind or on the web, and take a little trip and see how long before you’re bored to death. I don’t think you wanna go to Mars, right? Is it like that here? No. Every single moment of your life.
Yeah, there’s all these things happening. There’s colors, there’s shapes, there’s people, there’s nice people. There’s mean people. There’s old people, there’s young people, there’s women, there’s men, there’s everything all the time. There’s computers you can play with. There’s horses you can ride. Yes or no.
Are there things you can do on this planet? Yeah. Every place you look is awesome. And what do you mean you have need? I don’t understand and I’ll explain it to you. ’cause you do have knees, don’t you? How’d you get knees? Why are you not okay? Why are you not just blist out being here? And by the way, you don’t have to stay.
It is not. I can’t. I’m go home. You get to go home, don’t worry. It’s just, it’s a handful of years. You hang out on a planet that’s got so much to do. It’s unbelievable. So much variety. You don’t like this, do that, but that’s how you see it. I’ll do it very quickly. How do we get so screwed up. Fair enough.
Ready? Okay. I’m in here. I’m conscious. I’m aware. There’s awareness here. A rock doesn’t have awareness. This in here has awareness. I’m aware. Alright. What are you aware of? I’m aware that there’s a world out there. How are you aware? Because it comes in, alright, you’re in here and you’ve always been in here.
Were you in there yesterday? Were you sure you were in there five years ago, right? You just received different messages, came in through your census. Right, so you’re sitting back in here, fine. That is what’s supposed to be, that’s why you have a body so that it can experience this creation that God made.
Okay, let’s use the G word. Did you make all of this? Did you make everybody, did you make everything? Did you make the planet? Did you make all the stars? Come on, you’re busy, aren’t you? Some made it, let’s call it God. How about a nice name? Alright, short. Short. U-R-L-G-O-D. So I don’t care what you think made it right, just understand I didn’t, that’s what I did not make it right.
There are 2 trillion galaxies, all with hundreds of billions of stars. And your son is one little star and one galaxy. I know I And of you think he made it? No, you didn’t make it. Alright. Something made it And you get to experience it. That’s what’s going on. You, the consciousness is experiencing, lemme get it out.
Get the cat outta the bag right now. You know who you are. Now that made you feel low. ’cause you’re selfish. Right? You know who you are. You are the divine consciousness that created every single thing in the universe. Looking down to experience what he created. I’ve been doing this for how many years.
That’s what I come, that’s what I see. That’s what it’s, you are the divine consciousness. The awareness of the universe made. The whole universe still is making it. The quantum field’s coming up every moment, creating everything, and then the consciousness that created everything is looking down into its creation.
Like an artist would look at its painting. He made something. You step back. Nobody else has to buy it. Nobody has to look at it. Just the joy of seeing what got created. Beethoven, he went deaf in his old age. Beethoven was not a composer. He didn’t write the music. It went on in his head. It drove him crazy.
Read his story. He heard the symphonies. He, but he had to write ’em down. He wanted to hear ’em through his own ears. Okay? That’s why these great people are crazy. Alright? And so when he was going deaf, he cut the legs off his piano. Let it sit on a wood floor on the second story where it vibrate and he’d play and he’d put his ear down and he could feel the vibration.
He couldn’t hear, but he’d feel the vibration coming in, and that was the only piece he had was to hear what was going on inside, outside. That’s an artist art. That pure expression from the depth of your being, finding its way out into form, is that not art. So basically you are. Every moment and have always been the divine consciousness, the creator of the universe, looking down into his creation to experience, touch, feel, taste, hear, just whatever, all the different experiences, what got created.
Do you feel that way? No. But you are. You are. Everybody is. As the Bible say, man was created in the image of God, and you give God two arms and two legs. That’s God was created in the image of man, you are the divine consciousness experiencing its creation. That’s what’s meant. That man was created. The image of God.
You can create, you can experience. It’s all happening in a many form th. Through your moment. Okay, what happened? You understand it’s so need to talk arranged Jewish yogi. I read the Bible once, and yet the truth becomes so obvious. What’s the fall front of the garden? We’re about to talk about it if that’s what’s real.
That the entire consciousness of the, that’s, that is manifesting right now. The whole universe. Nasa, I once read something from NASA that said the quantum field is omnipresent. What’s the quantum field? That which is emanating the vibrations that create corks, leptons, boons, neutrons, protons, and then come up into atoms.
That which is down there right now manifesting everything. Don’t you dare say God created the heavens and earth. It is being created. Go check science out. It is coming up from that vibration. That’s all as vibrating energy is manifesting its form. Okay, that. Consciousness, that underlying consciousness, I’m the president.
Everywhere is manifesting everything and then looking down into it, I said, if I ever wanna teach you anything, just understand who you are. What happened? That’s what the fall from the garden is said, all symbolic. Alright. What do you mean what happened? What happened was you’re there experiencing. What every one of you are God’s Emissary ambassador to experience the part of creation that you’re experiencing.
Do you know that every moment you’ve experienced, no one else ever experienced, no one was standing in the same place, and then you move, no one comes with you. You have a unique path through creation that you alone get to experience. Wow. You’re pretty special, aren’t you? Now that I made you feel terrible about yourself, are you not?
Do you all know that your path through your life is unique and no one’s ever had it? No one will ever have it. It will never happen again. Okay, that’s. The meaning of life. The meaning of life is the experience of life that is put before you so that you are experiencing God’s creation as God created and there’s just this amazing connection of the divine experiencing himself.
But you are the vehicle, the channel. Alright? Not my will, but thy will be done. This is, it’s all the same. So it’s the fall from the garden. That’s your natural state. I can’t even imagine it. You’re this pure consciousness looking down at form and experiencing it as it comes in and expressing, alright.
What happened was somehow awareness consciousness has the ability to get distracted. Okay? So it’s not looking at what’s in front of it, it. Looks to the side, it gets bothered by this. It gets attracted by this. Different things happen and they leave impressions in your mind and your heart. These big distractions.
You see something, you hear something, you feel something, you think something, and all of a sudden your consciousness becomes focused on that. It focuses on what you to get distracted, but when you do that, your consciousness holds onto that. Most things in life go right through you. They, you see them, you experience some white lines in a row, trees, you’re drive by.
Everything just passes right through and you go about your life. You go about experiencing, you go about sending messages back to God. You know, send messages back to God. ’cause you are God experiencing. It’s even wrong to say sending messages. Hey God, here, take this one. You are literally the divine conscience experiencing his creation.
That’s what’s going on. But you get focused on certain things, not other things. And when you take your consciousness, your power of being and focus on something, it gets stuck inside of you. Have you noticed that some things go right through? People can talk to you all the time, but somebody says one thing and stays with you.
Who’s noticed that? You can see things all over the place, but one thing is so beautiful, so special, they never forget it. This is, is what we’re talking about. So your consciousness, the divine consciousness can become focused and fixated. Consciousness can become aware, more aware of one thing versus another, and that leaves an impression inside of you.
You call it your thoughts, your mind, your everything. It all kind. How? How far do I have to go into it? Once you do that, alright, you see a snake? Divine being and you’re experiencing everything. And this one calls up as a rattlesnake. And that’s strong energy. It’s meant to be. It’s part of God’s creation.
Hey, I made a snake that rattles, let me see it. Okay? And it sits there. But somehow, and that’s the fall, that is really the original sin. Somehow instead of seeing yourself as a divine experiencing creation, that’s Adam and Eve. Before the fall, you just. Man, it’s happening. It’s beautiful. It’s great. No problem.
Alright, you get pulled down, just distracted your conscience so much that you focused on it. And then when the snake crawls away, did it go away inside of you? Answer me. Did it go away inside of you, just like the white lines on the road did? No, it went away outside, but it didn’t go inside. That’s it. God, we’re talking deep.
If you understand that, you understand all the spirituality, understand every single thing that’s going on, it got stuck inside of you. Where, where there’s no inside of you. There’s this consciousness experiencing its creation. What’s this inside thing? You made it You. You sat there and said, in between the divine consciousness and form, I am going to hold on to form that.
Didn’t make it through a rattlesnake, A person who said something, a dent in my car, a little zit on my face. Okay? And so there are things that happen that are not even, and my consciousness starts to hold onto them, and it builds a false self called your personal mind. In between reality. The experience of reality, it builds, likes, dislike.
What is a like or a dislike? God created a creation. He loves it all. There’s no distinction. That’s what they mean by yin to young, alpha to omega. All things dark, light, good, bad, nice, not nice. Every single thing is God is the expression of the divine force. But what about, no, don’t gimme. What about if it’s here, he made it.
Do you understand that? These are deep teachings, right? So everything is that situation where things happen and you held onto them. We just call it clinging. You held onto it. Where, who? You, the consciousness. You in there, you can do things in there, can’t you? Can you push things away and hold onto things and, and then you build this model, my master called a mask.
Someone ask Yogananda, what is the ego right? The masquerading self. He didn’t need to write a book. The masquerading self you, the awareness of being the divine soul, the ray of the divine consciousness pulled around. You made outta form outside, but you did inside. Alright? Pulled around you this thing called a thought about the past.
Passes over didn’t exist. I told you. Every moment just comes and goes, isn’t it? It will never happen again, but you held it inside this place you call the mind and the heart, these energy fields. You use your will to hold these together, and so you built an entire model of what you want and what you like and what you don’t like, all based on the things you held from the past.
That’s where all of your preferences come from. They’re not natural, not wrong. It’s not guilt. There are no natural preferences. God created everything the same. The armadillo is not different than the monkey, right? It’s just something he created. It’s a video game that everything exists, everything, and it all came from the same source.
And what I love, like I said, the science is telling you that all form comes from these vibrations underneath all of it. Throughout the entire universe, every star, the black holes, everything. And I’ll have to tell you that. Go study, right? Go at least expose yourself to what the quantum physics have found out.
There is no form, there are no atoms, there’s just vibrations down there, and they put themselves together to make all that you see right now is doing, happening right now. All that’s what is everywhere. Okay? So God’s not judging what he made. And I say, well, I like Mars and I don’t like do alright. If I bother to make it, I paint Monet.
I know know. I like impression art. Monet played a beautiful paintings, right? You sit there and say, well, what’s that dot there? Like, our critics should be sent to Mars. Can you imagine some artist feels this like Monet or Renoir or Beethoven, they feel this inspiration pouring through their being and they paint it out or make the sound down there.
And somebody with their mind shows that, ah, he shouldn’t have done that. Oh, he said that stroke’s not exactly right, but are you kidding me? Where does that come from? Right? And where does it come from? It comes from the fact that you held onto things inside of this. Place in here, which is in between your consciousness and.
Experience. You built a model based on the stuff you clung to and now you say if when it happened, I liked it. That’s why I clung to it. ’cause I liked it then I like anything that reminds me of it. It looks like it tastes like it. Anything. Okay. And if when it came in, the reason I held onto it, I don’t like it.
I don’t like it at all. Now, I don’t like it. Every single one of your preferences is that, but you didn’t make up what you like. You didn’t make up who you like, you didn’t make up why you fell in love with somebody. They reminded you of a movie you saw once and the hair was similar to what my sister had or my brother had before he died.
And I felt loved to him so much. And look what they’re wearing. They wearing the same thing that I wear. In other words, it’s all about me. It’s all about me. I like you ’cause I can relate to you. You like what I stored? I stored all this stuff and you match a little bit. Don’t worry, you won’t later. Had anybody noticed that it can change, of course it can change why you have more experiences that you clinging to.
The more stuff you’ve held onto in there, the more that everything reminds you of what it reminds you of. My sister got the the blue bicycle and I wanted the blue bicycle and I ended up with a red one and she should have had the red one I said 43 years ago. How do you feel about your sister? I don’t like her very much.
How do you feel about blue? I hate it. You stored this stuff, you stored it ’cause it didn’t feel good when it came in. Can stuff not feel good when it comes in? Has anybody noticed? Do rattlesnakes feel the same as butterflies? Are they supposed to? No. Everything has its nature and so a wise being is in there and they’re giving it back to God.
Here, here’s a rattlesnake. Ultimately, you’re not even in there doing that ’cause you’re not in there. The divine is in there. That’s Christ. That’s what the great ones, right? There’s nothing in there. There’s nothing in between. Try to understand what a enlightened master is. The ego’s gone. He can bring it back and act like it if he wants to, right?
But it’s gone, but. There’s just pure experience. There’s pure be here now. That’s what that means. Just pure experience of what’s taking place. Nobody’s holding anything inside. And then because I’m holding inside, there’s no basis for like or dislike. There’s just pure experience, pure ecstasy, all of it.
And people say, well, what if something happens? Like so many you love dies, you feel ecstasy. No, you feel the humanness of loss. You feel the humanness of sorrow. You feel the humanness of love that, that you are missing. Okay, but you’re an ecstasy feeling now. That’s just part of what got created. That’s just part of the whole, it’s part.
It’s like, oh, how can I talk to you? Talk about duality. Have a 70 billion size multiplicity. You broke the whole thing in little pieces and decided which part you want and which part you don’t want. What’s wrong with feeling sorrow? Nothing unless you get into it and you get lost in it. So you keep it. No, it comes in.
Events happen. You feel them. Of course you feel them and they pass through and they make you a better, every single thing. Uh, start this way. If you’re playing a sport or playing an instrument. Does practice help? Is it true that there’s no such thing as one minute that you spend experiencing that practice that doesn’t make you better?
Every single thing you do, you get better by doing it. Every experience you ever had was meant to be experienced, and you’re meant to grow from it, not get screwed up the cause of it. Or not feel, oh my God, that would’ve been the love of my life, and they left me. No, no, no. You had an experience, someone you love.
Betrayed you, someone you love, left you, did it Create feelings inside of you? Did it stir up the stuff you stored from before? Is that bad or good? Someday you will wake up and saying, I can’t get back to who I am. The divine conscience experiencing creation when I have all this garbage inside of me. So if things happen that I don’t like, if things happen that are disturbing to me, doesn’t mean they’re not disturbing.
It means I am open to experiencing the disturbance so that I can learn to be. Fine, learn to be better under all situations, but it doesn’t mean you don’t feel you’re just okay with what you feel Someone wants to ask. Robert Krishna, a great enlightened being. Does an enlightened being ever feel anger? He said, yes, but he said it’s like riding on water and it goes right through.
Yes, something happened. You fell right through. There’s nothing wrong with anything. It’s just all reality and you’re experiencing it. The problem is you stored all this stuff from your past. Freud, you stored all this stuff from your past. You held it in there. Most of it you don’t wanna experience. You push it away, you suppress it.
What is suppression? Denial. What is all that? It’s you in there having experienced things. You don’t have to deny what you never experienced. You don’t have to suppress what you never experienced. You. You’ve never suppressed what you’ve never experienced true say. But if you experienced it and you were able to handle the experience.
You didn’t be God experiencing his creation. You had all this stuff in there that made a you and it didn’t like it. Then it pushes it away. Where’s it going to push it away? It doesn’t go anywhere. It stays inside of this mess you made in there. It makes more of a mess. Like a computer virus. It gets in there and it touches everything else, and you associate everything with all the garbage you stored in there.
So now you’ve built this, this thing. Sorry. It’s a thing, isn’t it? How about this? There’s no such thing as a good personality. There’s no such thing as a good personality. There’s personalities that you sell to people so that people like you. There’s ways that you behave that are more socially acceptable than other people, but there’s no personality.
There’s just God experiencing God’s creation, and it’s all coming in and going through, and the next moment happens, the next moment happens, and you’re joy of all of it and all of it. This is just all creation. It’s all what’s happening. But basically you don’t do that. You, you fight with it, you suppress it.
You, you, you in there, the divine force uses its will to push away things. That didn’t feel good. Instead of experiencing not feeling good, what’s wrong with experiencing not feeling good when you’re doing yoga? Asana. How you do yoga, right? And it, it hurts. The stretch hurts, but they say relax into it, don’t they?
Relax. Relax into it. Stop resisting. It’s the same thing with every single thing in creation. It comes in. Stop resisting. Doesn’t mean you don’t do something about it. Once you stop resisting, you get to interact you, but you interact, I love, you’re fine. You’re filled with inspiration. You’re filled with joy, you’re filled with divine consciousness, and so you come down and act based on that.
You don’t not act. You’re giving, you’re experiencing, but you don’t resist. You don’t sit in there and say, I don’t like that it happened. I can’t believe what you said to me. I will never talk to you ever again for the rest of my life. You should be ashamed of yourself. Whatcha doing? I’m saying I’m not okay, and I’m making sure you’re not either.
But I can’t handle reality. Therefore, I suppressed a bunch of it. I clung to a bunch of it, and now I want what? I didn’t want to happen to not happen again. You understand that? Make sure it doesn’t happen again. That better not happen again. Guy didn’t like it. And what did happen that I liked, I hung onto, I want it to happen again.
And that’s who I am. That’s what a human being is, a bundle of preferences based on their past experiences. Lemme say that again. That’s what the human psyche is, a bundle of clone to experiences that now I either want it or don’t want it to happen again, and I’m out there killing myself to try and get a life like that.
That’s serious. You wanna talk and you’re suffering. This is a bud torture. All life is suffering. Why the cause of suffering’s preference. The fact that you want the whole universe to be the way you want it to be, but you don’t care about the rest of it. How much of the universe do not care about, oh, I don’t know.
Quite a bit. You only care about the fact that hit your stuff. Something that can make you feel better, make you feel worse. Why do you not feel perfectly fine? ’cause you do. The divine consciousness is such an on the eternal conscious ecstasy. That’s who you are. That’s what’s coming down. That’s what’s looking through your eyes.
But something gets stuck in there, right? And now you understand that’s why you’re not okay. You’re not okay ’cause you held on, if you hold on and store every single thing that ever disturbed you in your entire life. What’s it gonna be like in there, disturbed? Is it not? And so now you’re conditionally.
Okay. And generally not even that. And that is what spirituality is about. It’s to sit here and say, it is not about what you’re doing, it’s about why you’re doing it. And going back to that and what you’re gonna see, you ain’t so proud of why you’re doing it. You’re making decisions based on crazy things, everything.
It’s all based on the fact that you’re not okay. And now I told you why you’re not okay. And I, now I know exactly what part is not okay. ’cause you’re different than her and he’s different that, and you’re different tomorrow than you were today. Because you’re holding onto different experiences and you’re building this ego, you’re building this self-concept, and then basically you’re making all decisions based on that.
Here, somebody’s trying on a dress or a suit in a department store, you know, one of those 16 sided mirrors, you know? Okay. And they get in, they go and they get inside and they’re turning around and looking, what are you doing? It’s either warm enough or it’s not. Depends on the season. What are you doing?
I’m not looking at the clothes. I’m looking at how I think people will look at me wearing the clothes. In other words. What is the motive behind your action? Every time you’re gonna see, I am not okay. Right? And I’m trying to be okay. Is that anything wrong with it? No. No, but it’s endless. It’s like that hamster on a wheel running around.
It’s never, okay. Well it goes, you’re not okay inside. And so the outside can’t compensate for what’s wrong inside. It can make, temporarily, you can have hope. Oh, I isn’t. This is gonna work. This is a perfect job. Oh my God. Look at my boss. She’s a woman. I was one of a woman boss. The woman’s a CEO of the company.
This is beautiful, right? Well, then she gets thrown out. Now what? I hate the job. Am I exaggerating? It’s conditional wellbeing based upon where you’re at, based on your past experiences. So you start to look inside. You look inside and say, where am I coming from? And if you see where you’re coming from, is your past experiences trying to manifest what you want?
Either happen again or not happen again. Maybe you take a look. Maybe that’s what spiritual growth is about. Of course, meditation helps ’cause it helps you get away for a moment. Okay, but then secret. Go deep. Go do a two week. And, and you guys think that I’m talking against meditation. I am not. Okay. I’m not.
It’s a beautiful thing. And mantra’s a beautiful thing. All the techniques are a beautiful thing. I wanna know why you need ’em. It’s because you blocked yourself. You need help unblocking yourself. Okay? So that becomes the spiritual journey. Alright? Now we get down to business. You sit there and you start watching why you’re doing what you’re doing.
Not what you’re doing. Why are you doing what you’re doing? Okay. And you’re trying to make it a little bit cleaner. That’s all. Just a little bit each action. Okay. Can I look at it? I don’t like being with him. Why? I just, the vibration reminds me of my uncle and I didn’t like my uncle at all and he really was disturbing and he upset my mother a lot.
And, okay. Thank you for being honest. Has nothing to do with him, has to do with you. It always has to do with you. Do you understand that Mother Theresa went and spent times with the lepers? Most people don’t like the lepers. She loved the lepers, right? But she didn’t know she loved the lepers. She didn’t go there to be Mother Teresa, RR, and I, pure.
She was filled with love and it came out on these people that were suffering. Do you understand that? Okay. And so you look inside, you don’t get neurotic. I’m not talking about neurotic. I don’t make being of tense. I’m talking about judging yourself. It has nothing to do with that. It has to do with awareness.
Being aware of what’s going on in there. And you don’t have to try. I tell you all the time. Look, look around. Don’t move your head. Just look around you. What do you see? How hard was that? How hard are you to see? That’s how hard it is to see inside. There’s stuff going on in there, isn’t it? You’re in there, right?
You have to be willing to be honest. And so you look inside when you’re doing something and you look to see why you’re doing it. But then it’s stress. It’s no stress, no much no stress. See what you see. There it is. Alright. Is it coming from a pure place? Is it leading you where you wanna go? ’cause where it’s coming from is where you’ll end up.
Do you understand that? That bottom seed, that underlying why is what ends up manifesting outside. Eventually you will catch on. It’s about letting go of yourself. It’s about little by little. Don’t get stressed out, just little by little noticing that I can do better. What does that mean? I can be selfless.
I can not be doing it for me. Doesn’t mean you have to do it for somebody else. It’s enough to not be doing it for you. People say, well, if I’m not doing it for me, what should I do it for? No, no. That’s the wrong question. Netti. Netti. Not me. Not me. I just see this. This is all me in there, right? Let it go.
What does that mean? What does it mean? Let it go. I can’t make enough being in there. I’ve collected it over lifetimes or whatever. Certainly over this lifetime, haven’t I? I’ve built this whole thing in here. What does it mean to let it go? It means that something’s gonna happen outside when all the time gonna be big mosquitoes.
It’s raining out. I don’t want it be rain. Something’s gonna happen outside. It’s gonna come in and it’s gonna create some disturbance in there. Why? I stored disturbance in there. So every single thing causes disturbance. Well, what do you wanna do about it? I’m gonna go and make sure it doesn’t happen again.
No, I’m gonna relax. That’s what I have found is the ultimate spiritual practice. It comes in. I feel resistance. Anybody know anything about resistance? I don’t want to experience this, but you just did. I don’t care. Okay. I’m going to relax. In the face of the experience, I’m not. Talk about some big things, little things.
It’s hot out. It’s raining. I hope it doesn’t rain tomorrow. You’re just setting yourself up to suffer your hope that it doesn’t rain. Tomorrow is a sickness. Why it’s gonna do what it does. That’s nothing to do with you, does it? It’s just reality is unfolding and you are in there making a mess of yourself ’cause it hits your stuff.
Yeah, but when I was young, it rained on my birthday and we were supposed to have the party outside. I was seven. Right. I’ll never forget that. I hate the rain. They said it was gonna rain next week. I’m worried. What are you doing to yourself? And to everybody else. And so you wake up and it starts, spiritual practice starts with and ends with relaxation.
It ends with, I’m in here and I notice it just got tense. I’m in here and notice I’m starting to resist. I’m in here. I’m notice I’m starting to clinging. I wish I had that. My car was so beautiful. Alright, very good. Okay, have fun. Not having fun. Take your night job, do everything. Take the money away from the kids’ education thing and get yourself a car.
Why are you doing what you’re doing? And you look in there and it doesn’t take long to see
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Michael Singer: me, for me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me. I, me, mine. And maybe with the littlest thing. Like, I don’t want it to rain tomorrow. Now, come on, you’re gonna suffer because you don’t want it to rain tomorrow. I don’t wanna say to you, what do you do?
Relax. What do you mean? I said, I don’t like it. Relax. Relax In the face of not liking it. Relax in the face of the tendency to resist it because you’re not gonna do anything about it anyways. Just let go inside, not outside. People think I teach, surrender. Whatever happened outside, just let it happen. No, I never taught such a thing in my entire life.
Never did such a thing. If when it came in, it caused resistance from my personal spiritual growth. I found it very healthy to first relax through that resistance and then deal with the situation. That’s what surrender means. Let go of you. I told you, if a drug dealer comes up on the street, comes up to you, say, Hey man, want some heroin?
Well, Mickey said to surrender, no. That is not what it means. It means if you feel resistance, because that person. Is lost and is, is pedaling drugs And you don’t like that person? Let go. I mean, you have to talk to him. No, he might, might not. I should say No. Thank you. I, I, I’m okay. I don’t know what you’re gonna do.
It doesn’t matter what you do. I told you it’s not about what you do, it’s why you did it right. I let go. I did not allow hatred or animosity to come inside of me because another human being’s lost. Judge, not teach you, not be judged. Every single thing I’m teaching, Christ taught He who is without sin, throw the first stone.
Forgive them Lord. They know what to do. Every single thing he taught are these teachings. Let go of yourself. Die to be reborn. How do you do that? The world comes in. Yes, I experienced it, obviously, and I tend to resist. I tend to struggle. I tend to have tension and anxiety, right? Who is the divine force is looking down at the junk that you built so that it can’t experience the beauty.
Sometimes you experience the beauty when it’s the way you want it to be. Oh, I can’t believe how much love I felt when you told me you love me. What if I tell you? Don’t? Are you kidding? I don’t feel love at all. Who are you? Alright. You’re only open to that, which matches this junk you built inside. And then you don’t wake up.
And I’m trying to stress it to you that that’s a terrible life. No wonder you’re struggling. No wonder you’re suffering. No wonder you’re scared. They have anxiety ’cause things might not be the way I want. Don’t worry, they won’t. They’re not naturally gonna be the way you want. That’s why I have to go and struggle.
Instead, you wake up and you say, I made this mess inside of me. And not only is that messing me up, it is not allowing the purpose of creation take place. I’m powerful enough to not allow the divine force that created all of creation. Even the part you don’t deal with on billions of stars and galaxies, that force created everything, and I’m gonna make sure it doesn’t get to experience what’s happening in front of me.
Fair enough? Okay, so you wake up. It’s a new year. How do you do it? I told you it’s that struggle. Don’t suffer, don’t fight. Just let go. When you’re conscious enough to see I’m causing trouble in here, relax. Just relax in the face when you don’t wanna relax. If you wanna relax, then not a problem, right? But there are times you don’t wanna let go.
Do you let go, then come back and deal with it. Let go. And where do you see what happens? They write me from all over the world. That’s ridiculous. My whole life changed. Of course, your whole life changed because the motive of your life changed. So I’m devotional. I’ve learned to love God. Fine. You don’t have to, you can just accept reality.
Same thing. Okay. And so basically you come down, but to me. You have this divine force that created everything. Wow. How do you not love it? Every single thing you see the divine force created and you are sitting there not letting that consciousness experience its creation. And that’s the truth. What is not my will, but I will be done.
What does that mean, get out away. Creation’s already being created. Not my will, but thy will be done. Alright. And that’s what I started off by saying, it’s not about what you’re doing, it’s about why you’re doing it. Now do understand, and that is your entire spiritual path. Is, be honest and do your best.
Make sure that what you’re doing is the best of your ability, not more just the best of your ability, the best that you can do to let it go. And where do you see how much you grow? Everything will change. Alright.
Tami Simon: You’ve been listening to the Michael Singer podcast, produced by Sounds True in partnership with Shanti Publications. For more information on Michael’s body of work and all back episodes, please join us at michaelsingerpodcast.com. Thanks so much for listening. Sounds true. Waking up the world.
